And the shit hits the fan!
I haven't posted in over five days, mainly because I've been so frikken busy at work. And, apart from work, I've done fokol! And just when hell was freezing over, all hell broke loose on Friday evening - got home at about 6.30pm, switched on my laptop to check some naked chicks of some sort. And then my worst nightmare unfolded.
The following will be my first (hopefully ONLY) real life diary incident to report while I'm here. Beware, this is real life shit going down, no jokes!
So after booting up, I reach a black screen saying something like "Windows cannot boot up due to System32-something-something file is corrupt." Fuck. Call helpdesk quick!!!!
Helpdesk: It appears that your harddrive may have crashed... we can only help you on Monday morning!
OH FOR FUCK! I almost shat myself right there, in sub zero temps I was dripping with sweat! I would've lost over 300 hours of work (note: deadline is this Friday, 16 December!). That's mainly caused by the fact that there is no place at work to back our docs up, something I did DAILY back home!!! And not to mention my research paper for Wits Biz School, would've lost half of it! For the first time ever, my thousands of photos from my travels were not a concern. That should tell you how fucked up this was!
I have never felt so nauseous over something like this before. Believe it or not, I actually puked, couple massive heaves to let go of my $6 burrito! How fucked up is that?! Although I was in bed for over 12 hours on Saturday night, I slept about two in total! I then slept the whole of Sunday. That burrito was all I ate the entire weekend. A record for this tuckshop?
Thank fucking God, come Monday morning, our techie-forensic guys at work recovered all my data - client work, research paper and photos! Jeez, what a relief! Unfortunately, the whole mishap has caused me to work some serious OT today - left the office at 10.30pm!
Lesson to be learnt: Back yo shit up. OFTEN!
Apologies for the pictureless post, but the seriousness of this post doesn't warrant a picture. And I suppose the only pic that would have fairly represented the intense-ness of this post was a photo of my burrito - sprayed all over the porcelain. Carrots, onions, rice, steak and all.
The following will be my first (hopefully ONLY) real life diary incident to report while I'm here. Beware, this is real life shit going down, no jokes!
So after booting up, I reach a black screen saying something like "Windows cannot boot up due to System32-something-something file is corrupt." Fuck. Call helpdesk quick!!!!
Helpdesk: It appears that your harddrive may have crashed... we can only help you on Monday morning!
OH FOR FUCK! I almost shat myself right there, in sub zero temps I was dripping with sweat! I would've lost over 300 hours of work (note: deadline is this Friday, 16 December!). That's mainly caused by the fact that there is no place at work to back our docs up, something I did DAILY back home!!! And not to mention my research paper for Wits Biz School, would've lost half of it! For the first time ever, my thousands of photos from my travels were not a concern. That should tell you how fucked up this was!
I have never felt so nauseous over something like this before. Believe it or not, I actually puked, couple massive heaves to let go of my $6 burrito! How fucked up is that?! Although I was in bed for over 12 hours on Saturday night, I slept about two in total! I then slept the whole of Sunday. That burrito was all I ate the entire weekend. A record for this tuckshop?
Thank fucking God, come Monday morning, our techie-forensic guys at work recovered all my data - client work, research paper and photos! Jeez, what a relief! Unfortunately, the whole mishap has caused me to work some serious OT today - left the office at 10.30pm!
Lesson to be learnt: Back yo shit up. OFTEN!
Apologies for the pictureless post, but the seriousness of this post doesn't warrant a picture. And I suppose the only pic that would have fairly represented the intense-ness of this post was a photo of my burrito - sprayed all over the porcelain. Carrots, onions, rice, steak and all.
posted by Dari at Monday, December 12, 2005
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